NVIDIA has today released Game Ready 522.25 WHQL driver. The driver brings support for the new GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card along with DLSS 3 support for games. There’s also Game Ready support for upcoming new releases which include Gotham Knights, A Plague Tale: Requiem and more.
Game Ready For The First DLSS 3 Games & New DLSS 2 Titles
DLSS 3 Games (Includes support for DLSS 2, also known as DLSS Super Resolution)
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Bright Memory: Infinite
- F1Ⓡ 22
- Justice”Fuyun Court” New Graphics Showcase
- Loopmancer
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- SUPER PEOPLE
DLSS 2 Games
- Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
- Dakar Desert Rally
- Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed
- Gotham Knights
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Substantial DirectX 12 Performance Improvements For GeForce RTX GPUs
In the last year, Game Ready Drivers have given GeForce gamers optimum performance in over 80 new releases, and have continued to optimize and improve the games you’re still playing. Most recently, our engineering team has designed new DirectX 12 enhancements that accelerate performance by double digits in a wide array of games.
Our DirectX 12 optimizations apply to GeForce RTX graphics cards and laptops, though improvements will vary based on your specific system setup, and the game settings used. In our testing, performance increases were found in a wide variety of DirectX 12 games, across all resolutions:
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: up to 24% (1080p)
- Battlefield 2042: up to 7% (1080p)
- Borderlands 3: Up to 8% (1080p)
- Call of Duty: Vanguard: up to 12% (4K)
- Control: up to 6% (4K)
- Cyberpunk 2077: up to 20% (1080p)
- F1Ⓡ 22: up to 17% (4K)
- Far Cry 6: up to 5% (1440p)
- Forza Horizon 5: up to 8% (1080P)
- Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition: up to 8% (4k)
- Red Dead Redemption 2: up to 7% (1080p)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider: up to 5% (1080p)
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: up to 5% (1080p)
- Watch Dogs: Legion: up to 9% (1440p)
Game Ready For New Game Launches
- A Plague Tale: Requiem: Available October 18th, A Plague Tale: Requiem continues the story of Amicia and Hugo after the events of the critically-acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence. At launch, the game will include support for NVIDIA DLSS 3 – head over to our RTX Games article to see a RTX ON trailer, to get further information, and to see how the game performs on GeForce RTX graphics cards.
- Gotham Knights: Batman is dead. A new expansive, criminal underworld has swept the streets of Gotham City. It is now up to the Batman Family – Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin – to protect Gotham, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals. At launch on October 21st, Gotham Knights gives GeForce gamers the definitive experience, with ray-traced reflections and performance-accelerating NVIDIA DLSS 2.
- Scorn: The anticipated atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set, in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry, launches October 14th. Get further details about Scorn on Steam.
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection: Play as Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer in their own standalone adventures as they confront their pasts and forge their own legacies. This game includes the critically acclaimed single-player stories from both Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection launches October 19th with support for DLSS 2.
Fixed Issues
- [Teardown] Resolves lower performance observed when MSI Afterburner overlay is used [3653400]
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands displays texture corruption after extended gameplay on NVIDIA GPUs [3777340]
- UE5.1 crashes when enabling path tracing on some drivers [3731151]
Known Issues
- Toggling HDR on and off in-game causes game stability issues when non-native resolution is used. [3624030]
- Videos played back in Microsoft Edge may appear green if NVIDIA Image Scaling is enabled upon resuming from hibernate or booting with fastboot. [3624218]
- [DirectX 12] Shadowplay recordings may appear over exposed when Use HDR is enabled from the Windows display settings. [200742937]
- Monitor may briefly flicker on waking from display sleep if DSR/DLDSR is enabled. [3592260]
- [RTX 30 series] Lower performance in Minecraft Java Edition. [3702953]
- [Forza Horizon 5] Rainbow like artifacts in game after driver update. [3685123]
- Dell XPS 9560 may crash and reboot when using desktop applications [3737715]
- Maxon – Cinema4D + Redshift3D vidmemory allocations cause TDR or Driver Crash [3659104]
- RedCine-X Pro potential crash while working with effects during video playback [3809401]
You can download the Game Ready 522.25 WHQL driver from NVIDIA’s site here and also through GeForce Experience.
